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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ea...

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Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong wit...

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For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualis...

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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in ot...

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A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a b...

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Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the fla...

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It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable tofind a place inside ou...

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Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's wh...

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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...

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These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discover...

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Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a Tub and Other Works

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

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I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a pic...

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I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...

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It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...

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